Liz Nurenberg

Gallery Show On-site June 7 – July 5

Double Head Phones is a sculpture from my Conversation Pieces series. This body of work positions participants into different physical configurations that reference different types of conversations. Double Head Phones positions people in toa side by side frame which according to Psychiatry professor Albert Scheflin is a favorite among men because it avoids direct eye contact which can be construed as a competitive challenge. The Sound Collage in this piece is heavy in baseball popular culture references to accentuate themes of masculine but also Americana.

The Double Straddle Listening Chair is designed to engage two people in close proximity to activate the space between the body. The sound collage is an ambient combination of more than one recording at equal levels to allow people to go in waves of listening and then back to the awkwardness of the physical proximity and intimate eye contact created by the shared chair. The sound collage is a combination of collected sounds from elevators throughout downtown Los Angeles and various portions of a reading of Dante’s Purgatory by the artist to combine literary and physical in between spaces.